Rep. French Hill

And the president has had interviews consistently over the last few weeks, and he's close to taking a decision.

And that this decision, whoever made the recommendation to do this, I think was a mistake because I think, as I've said, it distracts from our economic agenda, benefiting working families with lower cost and more accessibility to capital and housing.

And it's a distraction to Treasury Secretary Besant and President Trump's excellent work to identify a new leader for the Federal Reserve, something that we want and we want clarity on on Capitol Hill.

So that's why I think whoever made a recommendation.

That's possible.

I don't know that it's a threat to independence.

I think it's a distraction to the work we're trying to do here to move the economy forward, to complement the big tax changes we made to benefit working families last year.

We want to do the same thing this year.

to open up regulatory policy, make it easy not only just to permit the growth of the energy industry in the country and critical minerals.

These are goals of the president.

But we also want to reduce that regulatory burden on housing construction and capital access for the American economy.

And if we don't have a nominated and confirmed Federal Reserve chair, that's a distraction to getting that done in the right way.

And I think it throws the president's mission off track.

That's why I called it a distraction.

I'm sticking with it.

That's something we've got to talk about.